I'm even more impressed at someone's photoshop showing them all walking away from it

_________________ "I saw cities in Europe that were practically untouched by the war, countries that capitulated to the more powerful enemies even before war was declared, but we are not like that. Our grandfathers, our fathers, our older generation, our great leaders, fought here for each building, for each street." - First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on the 70th anniversary of victory at Stalingrad

It's just a round canopy jump. I'm told you hit a bit harder than a modern square canopy but they're still quite widespread in military jumping .

Yes, I know the Russians still use the good old D6, but the ones they have there I think you'll find are a little older than the ones in current use (or even in use in the 80's!)

Given the MTBF is always quoted as 200 jumps for the D6 I guess I can answer my own question that there is no HSE or any other sort of control over parachute safety in Russia...

Maybe the Daily Mail should move there...

_________________ "I saw cities in Europe that were practically untouched by the war, countries that capitulated to the more powerful enemies even before war was declared, but we are not like that. Our grandfathers, our fathers, our older generation, our great leaders, fought here for each building, for each street." - First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on the 70th anniversary of victory at Stalingrad

I'm prepared to accept the idea of MTBF as an illogical statistic for the mouse on my desk or the kettle in my kitchen but I tend to believe a little more in it when its the canopy that prevents me doing several hundred miles an hour into the ground

_________________ "I saw cities in Europe that were practically untouched by the war, countries that capitulated to the more powerful enemies even before war was declared, but we are not like that. Our grandfathers, our fathers, our older generation, our great leaders, fought here for each building, for each street." - First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on the 70th anniversary of victory at Stalingrad

I'll try not to think about that whilst shouting "tysyacha, dve tysyachi, tri tysyachi" and the fateful glance up to see if anything is there...

_________________ "I saw cities in Europe that were practically untouched by the war, countries that capitulated to the more powerful enemies even before war was declared, but we are not like that. Our grandfathers, our fathers, our older generation, our great leaders, fought here for each building, for each street." - First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on the 70th anniversary of victory at Stalingrad

Your average desantnik is so hard it doesn't matter if the D6 complex becomes counter-revolutionary

_________________ "I saw cities in Europe that were practically untouched by the war, countries that capitulated to the more powerful enemies even before war was declared, but we are not like that. Our grandfathers, our fathers, our older generation, our great leaders, fought here for each building, for each street." - First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on the 70th anniversary of victory at Stalingrad

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